1. The bangs. Why?2. How many cloisonne Add-a-Beads is enough?3. How much mascara is ophthalmologically unhealthy??4. How much Sun-In did it take to turn my hair that color?5. If I’m wearing a hunter green sweater, why am I wearing turquoise eyeliner? (Hard to see onscreen, but trust me…it’s there.)6. What am I looking at?

If anyone can answer any of these questions for me, I’ll be forever grateful.

20 Comments

Paige On Thursday, June 22 at 8:24 am

Anonymous On Thursday, June 22 at 9:20 am

You’re looking up at your Creator, thanking him for Sun-in, mascara, and turquoise eyeliner……..the typical prayers of a 17-year-old fox (to use the 80’s term for hottie!)

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Heather McKillip On Thursday, June 22 at 9:33 am

I’m amazed at how much you look like your pioneer profile picture!

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Julie On Thursday, June 22 at 10:13 am

I was just getting ready to say the same thing Heather said. LOL

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Jennifer On Thursday, June 22 at 11:13 am

I believe you are gazing into your future. A future filled with cowboys and cow nuts.Jennifer

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Anonymous On Thursday, June 22 at 12:13 pm

1. “She Bangs” – Ricky Martin…no particular reason for that either.

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Nan On Thursday, June 22 at 1:19 pm

You looked beautiful! :^)As for bangs… I highly recommend the song “Bangs” by They Might be Giants. A very funny listen.Nan

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Nan On Thursday, June 22 at 1:27 pm

Oh what the heck… here are the BANGS lyrics. You know… a person with your sense of humor would probably have a dimented appreciation for TMBG!:^)BangsAbove your eyes your hair hangsBlow my mind your royal flyness I dig your bangsBangsTo drape across your foreheadTo swing concordant angles as you incline your headOnce with a girl I fell in love sometime ago now she had…BangsAre that on which the world hangsIm only holding your hand so I can look at your bangsBangsAre like a pocket t-shirtAs casual as that while fully intentionalAnd in case you think Im here cause I like making chit chatJust remember what I said the moneys under your hatBangsAre that on which the world hangsIm only holding your hand so I can look at your bangsBangsAbove your eyes your hair hangsBlow my mind your royal flyness I dig your bangsBangsTo drape across your foreheadTo swing concordant angles as you incline your headAnd although I like you anyway, check out your haircutA proscenium to stage a face that needs no makeupBangsAre that on which the world hangsIm only holding your hand so I can look at your bangsIm only holding your hand so I can look at your bangs

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M J On Thursday, June 22 at 1:33 pm

you didn’t mention hair spray… how much do you think was actually used to create that look.And I think the bangs are cute. At least there isn’t much feathering going on.

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sasha On Thursday, June 22 at 1:56 pm

Answer to #1: At least you weren’t sporting “the claw,” the other unfortunate bangs of the ’80s.And Sun-in….ha! I used quarts myself.

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Mocha On Thursday, June 22 at 2:52 pm

I, personally, think you should be punished for that adorable smile and those cheeks. So I don’t feel sorry for you. Yet, my high school pic looks much the same.Minus the cute smile and cheeks. Are those dimples on you?

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Ree On Thursday, June 22 at 3:05 pm

Nan…I’m going straight to Itunes to search for that song. My sister had some pretty heinous bangs, too, and she’ll love it.Sasha…so glad you remember Sun-In! What a deception to mankind that was. Yikes.Mocha…I don’t see anything cute about my photo, probably because I remember all the teenage angst I was going through when it was taken. Nothing normal or balanced about that time for me. Jennifer & MJ: HA!Paige, thank you for the pardon and absolution.Hi, Julie & Heather & No-Name!

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lawyerish On Thursday, June 22 at 3:15 pm

That photo is AWESOME. Cloisonne Add-On Beads. God, that’s funny. I suffered through the 80s as well and have the heinous school photos to prove it. Yours is FAR more attractive than any of mine. I love the heavenward gaze. I think you’re praising the Lord for Shine-Free make-up. And were you wearing Electric Youth perfume? Or Primo! perhaps?

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KimbaLee On Thursday, June 22 at 5:27 pm

Sadly, I was only 3 in 1986 but I am not too young to remember the big bangs, as my mother created these atrocities on my sister’s young, unsuspecting head. First, you divide the huge amoung of bangs into 3 sections, tightly curling each one. Spray an entire can of aerosol hair spray on them and…wait….wait…..and brush directly heavenward until the victim appears 4 inches taller than she actually is.

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Snafu On Thursday, June 22 at 6:03 pm

1. The bangs. Why?ANSWER: Why not? (alternate: “because”).2. How many cloisonne Add-a-Beads is enough?ANSWER: As a man, I am unqualified to respond.3. How much mascara is ophthalmologically unhealthy??ANSWER: See response to #2.4. How much Sun-In did it take to turn my hair that color?ANSWER: See response to #2.5. If I’m wearing a hunter green sweater, why am I wearing turquoise eyeliner? (Hard to see onscreen, but trust me…it’s there.)ANSWER: See response to #2.6. What am I looking at?ANSWER: Hmmm. Pic was circa 1986- maybe a poster from ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”??

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shpprgrl On Thursday, June 22 at 9:22 pm

Those 80’s pictures drive me insane. I remember senior pictures and we had to wear a tube top and wrap this horrid thing worse than a feather boa around us. As a kid I always pictured that the girls in pictures like that were wearing some fancy dress. I was fooled and then a fool that had to wear it. Girl, rest easy you have some calm bangs, at least they didn’t hit the top of the roof of your car. Great post!

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sasha On Thursday, June 22 at 9:39 pm

….and while we’re at it, am I the only one who is sincerely disturbed that the ’80s are back ALREADY?!?

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leahpeah On Friday, June 23 at 7:42 pm

i have a rather nice looking double exposure photo from 1985. in one pose, i’m wearing my oversized, brown glasses and in the other pose, i’m naked-eyed. i know, right?

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Ron Southern On Saturday, June 24 at 3:27 pm

Wahoo, wha do I care? Looked hot to me! And for this I have to solve an alphabet puzzle?

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Jenni in KS On Sunday, June 25 at 6:06 pm

leahpeah said: “in one pose, i’m wearing my oversized, brown glasses”That made me laugh, cause I just threw out my oversized, brown glasses last week, but not before the kids noticed, tried them on, and laughed hysterically at their dork of a mom:o) For the record, I haven’t worn those glasses in years. I finally realized that I’d rather drive blind than wear them as a backup pair. I never could do the bangs. I’m a total failure at hair. I do have a lovely GlamourShots photo circa 1992. I thought it would be a nice gift for dh and I’d get a mini makeover before our date night. Little did I know they would give me the same 80s hairstyle every white girl got, give me Tammy Faye Baker makeup, and make me pose in one of those horrid tube top things and a drape of fabric and feathers for an extremely effiminate male photographer who complemented me on what a beautiful bra I was wearing (straps showed above tube top) as he rearranged my fabric drape. The photographer actually asked me where I bought my bra. I think he wanted one:oO. Oh, and I was 7 months pregnant wearing that tube top. Good thing it was a head shot:o) If I ever get my own blog, maybe I’ll share that photo. Maybe exposing this side of myself to the whole internet world would make the memory less humiliating. Maybe it would even allow me not to shudder every time I walk into dh’s office and see the picture, which he refuses to allow me to replace. Or maybe not.

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